150 W. Irvine — TJie Bangasfi Nawahs of FarruJcMMcl. [No. 2, 



32. Sliiurdjpur. — In the Cawnpur district, the parganah nest to the 

 east of Bilhor, No. 30. 



33. Musenagar-Bhogni. — In the south o£ the Cawnpur district, along 

 the left hank of the river Jarnna. 



We are not told which of these thirty-three mahals formed the sixteen 

 made over to the Mahrattas. The management would appear to have heen 

 left in the hands of Ahmad Khan, though it is doubtful whether this refers 

 to all the mahals, or only to the Nawab' s half. We are told that, after 

 deducting the costs of management and the pay of the troops, the balance 

 was payable to Mulhar Rao. On the part of the Mahrattas two bankers 

 were appointed, called by them JBamman, who were stationed one at Ka- 

 nauj, the other at 'Aliganj in Parganah 'Azimnagar. The balance payable 

 to the Mahrattas was made over to these two bankers, by whom the money 

 was remitted to Mulhar Rao. Receipts for each year were then forwarded 

 to the Nawab. These payments were made for several years in succession. 

 They ceased after the battle of Panipat, fought in January 1761, when the 

 Mahrattas left Hindustan for a time, retired beyond the Jamna, and proceed- 

 ed to the Dakhin. 



For some years the Mahrattas were occupied in domestic struggles 

 and in warfare south of the Narbada. Advantage was taken of their with- 

 drawal from Hindustan to recover all the p>arganahs which had fallen into 

 their hands. During 176L-1763 Shuja'-ud-daula cleared the lower Duab of 

 their posts and even advanced into Bandelkhand as far as Jhansi. Nawab 

 Ahmad Khan, in the same way, took possession of many of the parganahs 

 once held by his father, and no longer paid any tribute to the Mahrattas. 

 Etawah, Phapond and Shikohabad, however, which had in 1761 been grant- 

 ed to Hafiz Rahmat Khan by the Abdali monarch, were permanently 

 severed from the Farrukhabad state. 



Except for a short time at Delhi in 1764, and at the battle of Korah 

 in 1765, no Mahratta was seen in Northern India for more than eight 

 years. In the end of 1769, however, the Peshwa's army, amounting to fifty 

 thousand men, crossed the Chambal. It was under the command of Visaji 

 Kishn, Ram Chandar Ganesh, Mahadaji Sendhia and Tukaji Holkar. First 

 they levied arrears of tribute from the Rajput princes. Next, after a vic- 

 torious engagement fought close to Bhartpur, they obtained sixty-five lakhs 

 of rupees from the Jat princes. Overtures were then made to them by 

 Najib Khan, and it was agreed that their combined armies should march 

 against Farrukhabad.* 



Early in the year 1184 H. (27th April, 1770— 16th April, l771),Najib 

 Khan advanced from Delhi. Hafiz Rahmat Khan, whose son's jdgir of 

 * Grant Duff, pp. 349, 350. 



